Ipad Vs Playbook

New iPad vs BlackBerry PlayBook vs Amazon Kindle Fire: Which should you get?

By Simon Sage, Tuesday, Mar 13, 2012 a 11:45 am

With the new iPad around the corner, there are lots of people wondering if now is the time to jump into the wonderful world of tablets. Of course, the new iPad will be the first one many first timers will look at. Many savvy shoppers, however, will also take a look at the alternatives before taking the plunge. That's especially true of low-cost alternatives like the BlackBerry PlayBook, Amazon Kindle Fire, and smattering of other bargain bin Android tablets (like the $100 ZTE Optik). The question is simple: how much are you willing to spend, and what value can you get for your money?

New iPad vs. ASUS Transformer Infinity (Android) vs. BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Mar 7, 2012 a 3:40 pm

Apple announced the new iPad at their [event today](http://www.imore.com/tag/ipad-3-event, but how does it compare to the recently announced Android 4.1 Ice Cream Sandwich-packing ASUS Transformer Infinity, and the just updated PlayBerry Playbook 2.0?

BlackBerry 10 superphones not arriving until late 2012

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Dec 15, 2011 a 8:22 pm

RIM announced their Q3 2011 results today, including the bloodbath that is PlayBook sales, and clusterfrak that is BlackBerry 10 superphones not being available until late 2012.

RIM needs to either get it together and become the competition we sorely need, or hope their stock drops low enough that CrackBerry Kevin can buy them with left over watch money and turn them around himself.

Either way, it deeply angers me to have to say, I told you thusly.

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Galaxy Nexus, RAZR, PlayBook 2.0 come gunning for iPhone and iPad

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Oct 19, 2011 a 4:53 pm

Competitors still struggling in the shadow of the iPad

By Georgia, Sunday, Sep 4, 2011 a 10:19 am

While I can't claim for sure TiPb was the first to say there wasn't a tablet market, just an iPad market, we've been talking for a long time now about how the iPad has become so dominant, so fast, it's left very little room in mainstream hearts and wallets for competitors. The latest cases in point:

iPad rivals still can't find a tablet market

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011 a 6:24 pm

Apple has proven time and time again that they're driven to innovate regardless, that they can successfully compete against themselves, but nothing drives them to innovate and compete faster and in a more focused fashion than a successful rival. Sadly, when it comes to iPad, rivals are proving anything but successful at the point.

Apple Store opens in BlackBerry hometown of Waterloo

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Aug 13, 2011 a 3:12 pm

Apple opened a handful of new Apple Stores today, none more amusingly placed than the one in Waterloo, Ontario, the hometown of BlackBerry maker RIM. Starting today, anyone in Waterloo who wants an iPhone rather than Bold, iPad rather than PlayBook can just wander on over. And according to @Steve_Gamble, they seem to be doing just that:

At the new Apple Store in Waterloo today. The number of Blackberries going dark is astounding!

Anyone else attending the opening of Apple in Waterloo? Any CrackBerry protests going? Let us know!

iPad 2 vs. BlackBerry PlayBook browser battle!

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011 a 11:10 pm

As part of his epic BlackBerry PlayBook review, our good friend CrackBerry Kevin put RIM's new tablet browser one-on-one against the great one -- Apple's iPad 2. That's right, we have yet another entry in our browser battle series!

When we put the PlayBook head to head against the iPad 2 in a browser shootout (see below), we saw pretty comparable page load times but did notice on websites where there were flash-based advertisements present, this would slow down the PlayBook by a few seconds while the iPad 2 would serve up a faster loading static image. Disabling flash evened out the load times.

Check out the video after the break and if you haven't already, check out the rest of Crackberry's PlayBook coverage! (Then rush back here and tell us what you think!)

RIM's iPad competitor, BlackBerry PlayBook gets reviewed!

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011 a 10:39 pm

CrackBerry Kevin goes hands-on for a full BlackBerry PlayBook review

RIM finally gets their 7-inch, QNX-powered iPad competitor to market and our sibling site, CrackBerry.com has your positively gargantuan BlackBerry PlayBook review piping hot and ready! From hardware to software literally nothing is left out. So how does the man who loves BlackBerry like the PlayBook?

BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad 2 form factor showdown

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011 a 1:27 pm

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CrackBerry Kevin is at CTIA this week managed to snag this video comparing the upcoming BlackBerry Playbook's form factor and dimensions against the just-released iPad 2.

Kevin has a bunch of other new PlayBook videos up, so check them all out and let us know what you prefer, the pocket-ability-ish nature of the 7-inch PlayBook or the big screen of iPad 2?

[CrackBerry]